Kikwit
Americannoun
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Socklo's passion began in his village in Kikwit, southwestern Congo, in 1975, when he dismantled and copied a guitar a friend had given him.
From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2021
Scientists knew little about the virus until 1995, when an outbreak in Kikwit, DRC, killed 245 people in six months.
From Nature ● Jul. 23, 2019
Dr Muyembe remembers the incident in 1995: "One of our patients escaped from Kikwit and came to Kinshasa. He was received at the hospital and we did not have another case of Ebola."
From BBC ● May 24, 2018
The team has also begun collecting blood samples from 40 survivors of an outbreak that occurred in Kikwit in 1995.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2017
The New Brunswick, New Jersey, company said earlier experiments conducted by the National Institutes of Health showed that the vaccine regimen protected against the Kikwit Zaire strain of Ebola.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2015
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